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NERIN
- Northern Eurasia Regional Information
Network
The
Russian-language version of this site is available
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Northern
Eurasia is the largest landmass in the extratropics,
the largest terrestrial reservoir of organic carbon,
and an area of active land use change. This region
is also a major source of uncertainty in many global-scale
estimates, including the estimates of land-cover,
carbon stores, and flux.
The primary
goal of NERIN is to promote and coordinate the production
and provision of Earth System observations for a
wide range of user communities in Northern Eurasia.
NERIN works together with forest and land management
agencies to ensure continuous, high quality observations
for operational and management applications.
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NERIN
also has strong linkages with the Northern Eurasia Earth
Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI),
which is a programme of internationally supported Earth
System Science research in the region.
NERIN
is an informal network of scientists and other professionals,
institutions and observational networks and projects within
the thematic scope of GOFC-GOLD and NEESPI.
NERIN
workshop “Requirements for Observations of Landcover
Dynamics in Dryland Regions of Northern Eurasia”
is planned for September 20, 2007 at Urumqi, China. The
workshop is held in conjunction with Regional Science
Team Meetings of NEESPI and NASA Land Cover Land Use Change
(LCLUC) Program. For more information see the
agenda. Reports and other materials from NERIN workshops
in 2001,
2004,
2005
and 2006 (Tomsk
and Moscow)
are available. The new network project NELDA
started in 2006. NERIN is currently assembling information
about the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics
of data sets available to support new research in Northern
Eurasia. Searchable
METADATA are available and new
contributions to the METADATA are welcome. For sources
of remotely sensed data for Northern Eurasia see NEESPI
Data Portal, Terra
Norte, and GOFC-GOLD catalogues.
Contacts
and additional details
The
network includes two closely linked thematic components:
Land Cover - http://www.gofc-gold.uni-jena.de
(Olga
N. Krankina) and
Fire - http://gofc-fire.umd.edu
(Ivan Csiszar)
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